Lu Chuan died while fighting a flood.
When he opens his eyes again, he’s become a seventeen-year-old illegitimate son sent into exile, then dumped in a desolate town with barely over three hundred people and made its mayor.
The town is crumbling, the roofs are rotten, and stray dogs roam everywhere. A little girl clutches some wild greens and asks if he can drive away the bandit who stole her home.
The System binds to him. It doesn’t offer martial arts or magic, but instead gives him a Handbook for Grassroots Governance and a waterwheel blueprint.
Fine, then. Repair roads, dig canals, register residents, and attract investors.
Before long, the whole town has enough to eat, the bandits outside have been recruited into a forest patrol, and refugees from neighboring towns are lining up to settle there.
A nobleman sends people to impose heavy taxes. Lu Chuan slaps the ledger down on the table.
“Come on, let’s talk about what a tax burden ratio is.”
